Monitoring method for plate billet crank flying shear process

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11579042-B2
Application number	US-202117401990-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 13, 2021
Priority date	Sep 10, 2020
Publication date	Feb 14, 2023
Grant date	Feb 14, 2023

Abstract

The present invention provides a monitoring method for a plate billet crank flying shear process, including: acquiring a control signal of a control system of a crank flying shear device, and determining a cutting stage of the crank flying shear process according to the control signal; obtaining an actual cutting edge speed curve in the cutting stage, and further dividing the cutting stage into multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve; obtaining actual data of a parameter related to the crank flying shear process, and for one or more of the multiple sub-processes, separately comparing the actual data of the parameter with typical data of the parameter, in order to estimate an abnormality risk.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A monitoring method for a plate billet crank flying shear process, the method comprising:
acquiring a control signal of a control system of a crank flying shear device, and determining a cutting stage of the crank flying shear process according to the control signal;
obtaining an actual cutting edge speed curve in the cutting stage, and further dividing the cutting stage into multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve;
obtaining actual data of a parameter related to the crank flying shear process, and for one or more of the multiple sub-processes, separately comparing the actual data of the parameter with reference data of the parameter, in order to estimate an abnormality risk of a crank flying shear device used in the plate billet crank flying shear process.

2. The monitoring method according to claim 1 , wherein the cutting stage comprises a head-cutting stage for cutting a head portion of the plate billet, and the head-cutting stage is further divided into the following multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve: 1) an acceleration/preparation process, 2) a cutting-in process, 3) a cutting-away process, and 4) a deceleration process.

3. The monitoring method according to claim 2 , wherein an operating condition in the crank flying shear process is obtained, and the operation condition is subjected to clustering analysis to obtain a reference crank flying shear process condition;
reference data of the parameter is obtained according to the reference crank flying shear process condition;
wherein the operation condition comprises plate billet movement speed, plate billet material, processing temperature and plate billet thickness.

4. The monitoring method according to claim 3 , wherein the actual data of the parameter comprises the actual cutting edge speed curve, and the reference data of the parameter comprises a reference cutting edge speed curve;
deviations between the actual cutting edge speed curves and the reference cutting edge speed curves are obtained for the multiple sub-processes;

the abnormality risk is estimated according to the deviation.

5. The monitoring method according to claim 4 , wherein each of the deviations between the actual cutting edge speed curves and the reference cutting edge speed curves are compared with reference cutting edge speed deviation distributions respectively, in order to calculate the abnormality risk.

6. The monitoring method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
calculating deviation vector of the deviations;
combining the deviation vectors in the multiple sub-processes, to obtain a characteristic vector; and
determining a fault cause on the basis of the characteristic vector.

7. The monitoring method according to claim 3 , wherein the actual data of the parameter comprises actual vibration data from a cutting edge driver of the crank flying shear device, and the reference data of the parameter comprises a reference vibration state monitoring index of the cutting edge driver;
the monitoring method further comprises:
chronologically synchronizing the actual vibration data with the multiple sub-processes;
obtaining an actual vibration state monitoring index according to the actual vibration data;
comparing the actual vibration state monitoring index with the reference vibration state monitoring index for the multiple sub-processes, in order to obtain a deviation therebetween.

8. The monitoring method according to claim 7 , wherein the cutting edge driver comprises a drive motor, a gearbox and a drive shaft, and wherein the vibration data is vibration data for at least one of the drive motor, gearbox and drive shaft.

9. The monitoring method according to claim 3 , wherein the actual data of the parameter further comprises actual lubricant data from a lubrication system of the crank flying shear device, the actual lubricant data being a selected one from a group consisted of a lubricant flow rate, a lubricant pressure and a lubricant supply frequency, and the reference data of the parameter comprises a reference lubricant state monitoring index of the lubrication system; the monitoring method further comprises:
chronologically synchronizing the actual lubricant data with the multiple sub-processes;
obtaining an actual lubricant state monitoring index according to the actual lubricant data; and
comparing the actual lubricant state monitoring index with the reference lubricant state monitoring index for the multiple sub-processes, in order to obtain a deviation therebetween.

10. The monitoring method according to claim 3 , wherein the actual data of the parameter further comprises actual current data from a motor of a cutting edge driver of the crank flying shear device, and the reference data of the parameter comprises a reference current state monitoring index; the monitoring method further comprises:
chronologically synchronizing the actual current data with the multiple sub-processes;
obtaining an actual current state monitoring index according to the actual current data; and
comparing the actual current state monitoring index with the reference current state monitoring index for the multiple sub-processes, in order to obtain a deviation therebetween.

11. The monitoring method according to claim 1 , wherein the cutting stage comprises a tail-cutting stage for cutting a tail portion of the plate billet, and the tail-cutting stage is further divided into the following multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve: 1) a cutting edge preparation process, 2) an acceleration/preparation process, 3) a cutting process, and 4) a deceleration process.

12. The monitoring method according to claim 1 , wherein the cutting stage comprises a head-cutting stage for cutting a head portion of the plate billet, and the head-cutting stage is further divided into the following multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve: 1) an acceleration/preparation process, 2) a cutting-in process, 3) a cutting-away process, and 4) a deceleration process; and
wherein the cutting stage comprises a tail-cutting stage for cutting a tail portion of the plate billet, and the tail-cutting stage is further divided into the following multiple sub-processes according to the actual cutting edge speed curve: 1) a cutting edge preparation process, 2) an acceleration/preparation process, 3) a cutting process, and 4) a deceleration process.

Assignees

• Skf Ab
• Skf China Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cheng Gang
• Liao Shibai
• Lin Feng

Classifications

• G01M7/00

  Vibration-testing of structures; Shock-testing of structures (G01M9/00 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B23Q17/00

  Arrangements for {observing,} indicating or measuring on machine tools (for automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work B23Q15/00) · CPC title

• B23D33/00

  Accessories for shearing machines or shearing devices (feeding stock to machines or removing stock B21D43/00) · CPC title

• G01M13/00 Primary

  Testing of machine parts · CPC title

• G01M13/028 Primary

  Acoustic or vibration analysis · CPC title